Software Engineer

We are currently looking for a Software Engineer, to join our client, a global leader in the Technology field, based in Zurich.

The role will be a 1 year contract, which can be extended.

As a software engineer, you’ll be driving efforts to develop and prototype computer-vision based experiences that provide creativity and social play experiences for people connecting through AR or VR products. This includes building the infrastructure that supports the development of these experiences, and prototyping and optimizing them to explore and define the future of online social interaction.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build and launch efficient & reliable data pipelines

• Develop prototypes for future AR/VR experiences, cutting edge research, drive continued development, or integrate robust solutions into products

• Code using primarily C++ and Python.

• Conduct design and code reviews.

• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

• Complete medium to large features (each with many tasks) independently without guidance.

• Proactively identify and drive changes as needed for assigned codebase, product area and/or systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of experience in Python and C++

• Experience with performance and process optimization

• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.

• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.

• Ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue.

Experience with computer graphics and/or game engines technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Designing and implementing real-time pipelines.

• Designing and implementing data pipelines for CV/ML systems.

• Experience with workflow management engines (i.e. Airflow, Luigi, Prefect, Dagster, digdag.io, Google Cloud Composer, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory, UC4, Control-M).

• Experience with data quality and validation.

• Experience querying massive datasets using Spark, Presto, Hive, Impala, etc.

• Experience in optimization of computer-vision applications.

• Experience in building highly-scalable performant data pipelines

• • Experience with Data Modeling.